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| DuPont Company's Public Relations photographs, undated
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| Creator: |
E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. Public Relations Dept. |
| Repository: |
Hagley Museum and Library: Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department |
| Accession Number: |
1968.025 |
| Extent: |
39 items |
| Abstract: |
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company is a chemical company. Founded in 1802, the company began with the production of gunpowder.
This collection contains 27 photographs of various du Pont family members, family gravestones, DuPont employees (groups),
cartoons related to the DuPont company, and exterior views of acquired company buildings.
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| DuPont Company President Crawford Greenewalt's office transparencies, circa 1948-1962
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| Creator: |
E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company |
| Repository: |
Hagley Museum and Library: Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department |
| Accession Number: |
1968.026 |
| Extent: |
5 items |
| Abstract: |
Crawford Hallock Greenewalt (1902-1993) was a chemist and President of the DuPont Company from 1948 to 1962. This collection
consists of five color transparencies of the DuPont Company President's office interiors (previously identified as Pierre
S. du Pont's office, but now believed to be Crawford Greenewalt's office).
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| United Mine Workers of America membership certificate transparency, undated
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| Creator: |
Hagley Museum |
| Repository: |
Hagley Museum and Library: Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department |
| Accession Number: |
1968.028 |
| Extent: |
2 items |
| Abstract: |
United Mine Workers of America is a labor union that represents coal miners. It was founded in 1890 and continues to be active.
This color transparency of the United Mine Workers of America membership certificate that has various images along the boarders
that depict coal miners' handshakes and rites of passage.
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| Views of Brandywine area engravings, undated
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| Creator: |
Steel, James W., 1799-1879 |
| Repository: |
Hagley Museum and Library: Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department |
| Accession Number: |
1969.003 |
| Extent: |
2 items |
| Abstract: |
The Brandywine Valley is a rural region of Southeast Pennsylvania and Northern Delaware celebrated for its historical ties
to Revolutionary-era America. This collection contains two b&w engraved prints of depictions of the Brandywine area.
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| Eugene Blery's engravings of Nemours, 1851, 1870
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| Creator: |
Blery, Eugene, 1805-1887 |
| Repository: |
Hagley Museum and Library: Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department |
| Accession Number: |
1969.004 |
| Extent: |
2 images |
| Abstract: |
Eugene Blery (1805-1887) was a French artist, engraver and lithographer. This collection contains two etchings of pastoral
views of Nemours in Normany, France. One depicts the French ancestral home of the du Pont family.
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| Henry Francis du Pont and Mrs. E.I. du Pont photograph, 1967
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| Creator: |
unknown |
| Repository: |
Hagley Museum and Library: Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department |
| Accession Number: |
1969.005 |
| Extent: |
1 item |
| Abstract: |
Henry Francis du Pont was the great-grandson of E.I. du Pont, the founder of the DuPont Company. He was a director of E.I.
du Pont de Nemours & Company, a member of its executive committee, a director of the Wilmington Trust Company, a director
of General Motors, and a member of its finance committee. This collection contains one photograph of Henry Francis du Pont
and Mrs. E.I. du Pont at the 1967 Delaware Antiques Show.
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| 1836 Pennsylvania Railroad passenger car photograph, circa 1893
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| Creator: |
unknown |
| Repository: |
Hagley Museum and Library: Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department |
| Accession Number: |
1969.006 |
| Extent: |
2 items |
| Abstract: |
Founded in 1846, Pennsylvania Railroad Company (PRR) was a leading industrial and transportation force throughout the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries. This collection features a cyanotype and a photographic copy print of an image depicting the first
passenger car created for PRR, most likely taken in 1893 in relation to Chicago World's Columbian Exposition.
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| American Car and Foundry woodwork, undated
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| Creator: |
unknown |
| Repository: |
Hagley Museum and Library: Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department |
| Accession Number: |
1969.007 |
| Extent: |
25 items |
| Abstract: |
American Car and Foundry Company was founded in 1899 as the result of a merger among thirteen railroad carbuilding companies.
This collection features 25 copy photographs of building interiors and exteriors with emphasis on wooden architectural elements.
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| DuPont Co., Carney's Point photographs, circa 1925
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| Creator: |
unknown |
| Repository: |
Hagley Museum and Library: Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department |
| Accession Number: |
1969.008 |
| Extent: |
2 items |
| Abstract: |
E.I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Company was organized as an operating company to consolidate approximately 100 explosives manufacturers
controlled by E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. This collection features two photographs of the DuPont Smokeless Poweder Works
float entered in the 1925 250th Anniversary parade in Salem, New Jersey.
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| Hagley Yard buildings, DuPont Company offices and laboratory, and powder labels, circa 1890-1928
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| Creator: |
Macklem, J.W. |
| Repository: |
Hagley Museum and Library: Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department |
| Accession Number: |
1969.011 |
| Extent: |
32 items |
| Abstract: |
This collection of John William Macklem contains 15 photographs of structures in the Hagley Yards after they closed in 1921,
DuPont Company office staff in Equitable Building, Wilmington, Delaware, and 16 gunpowder labels for A.F. & Co. FF gunpowder
and DuPont superfine HFg gun powder.
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| Lea family photograph collection, circa 1845-circa 1920
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| Creator: |
Lea family |
| Repository: |
Hagley Museum and Library: Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department |
| Accession Number: |
1969.012 |
| Extent: |
1.0 linear foot |
| Abstract: |
Thomas Lea (1759-1833), the son-in-law of miller Joseph Tatnall, passed on the Tatnall-Lea grain mills in Wilmington, Delaware
to his son William Lea. In 1864, William Lea brought his sons Henry and Preston into the firm, changing the name to William
Lea & Sons Company. This collection includes portraits of members of the Lea and related families. These include such family
names as Tatnall, Warner, Preston, Ferris, Downing, Spruance, Lovett, Moore, Bush, Ely, and others.
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| James F. Allee, Jr. photographs, circa 1900
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| Creator: |
Allee, Elheurah J.; Farmer's Bank of the State of Delaware |
| Repository: |
Hagley Museum and Library: Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department |
| Accession Number: |
1969.013 |
| Extent: |
6 items |
| Abstract: |
James F. Allee, Jr. (1884-1956), was a lawyer and publisher from Dover, in Kent County, Delaware. This collection contains
six photographic prints from the J.F. Allee papers.
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| May B. Kenney collection of photographs, circa 1860
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| Creator: |
Kenney, Mae B. |
| Repository: |
Hagley Museum and Library: Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department |
| Accession Number: |
1969.014 |
| Extent: |
7 items |
| Abstract: |
Contains photographic prints from a family who once resided in Laurel, Delaware. |
| Francis I. du Pont portrait, undated
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| Creator: |
unknown |
| Repository: |
Hagley Museum and Library: Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department |
| Accession Number: |
1969.015 |
| Extent: |
1 item |
| Abstract: |
Francis I. du Pont (1873-1942) was a chemist, inventor, and stockbroker most celebrated for his involvement with the partnership
of Francis I. du Pont and Company, stockbrokers in New York, and the Delaware Chemical Engineering Company in Wilmington.
This collection contains a color photograph of a portrait of Francis I. du Pont painted by Gordon Stevenson.
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| The war between the United States and Mexico illustrated, copy photographs, 1851
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| Creator: |
Boyot Lithographers; Nebel, Carl, 1805-1855 |
| Repository: |
Hagley Museum and Library: Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department |
| Accession Number: |
1969.017 |
| Extent: |
12 items |
| Abstract: |
This collection contains photographic prints of illustrations from George Wilkins Kendall's
The war between the United States and Mexico, a publication from 1851.
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| Marguerite du Pont Lee family photographs, undated
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| Creator: |
Lee, Marguerite du Pont, 1862-1936 |
| Repository: |
Hagley Museum and Library: Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department |
| Accession Number: |
1969.021 |
| Extent: |
4 items |
| Abstract: |
Marguerite du Pont Lee (1862-1936) was a descendant of Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817) who founded the E.I. du
Pont de Nemours & Company with his son Eleuthere Irenee du Pont (1771-1834) in 1802. The E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
is a chemical company more commonly referred to as the DuPont Company. This small collection consists of four items belonging
to Marguerite du Pont Lee. Two individual portraits, a photograph of a gate, and a decorative leaf.
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| Joseph Bancroft and Sons Company photographs, 1888-1952
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| Creator: |
Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company. |
| Repository: |
Hagley Museum and Library: Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department |
| Accession Number: |
1969.025 |
| Extent: |
1.5 linear feet |
| Abstract: |
Joseph Bancroft (1803-1874), an Englishman trained in textile weaving in Lancashire, established his own cotton mill on the
Brandywine near Wilmington in 1831. The operation became the Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company in 1889. The photographs consist
of images related to the Joseph Bancroft & Sons textile mills in the Rockford and, later, Kentmere areas on the banks of the
Brandywine River. These images include plant exteriors and interiors, officials and employees, aerials, workers' housing,
machinery, floods, and dams and races on Brandywine Creek.
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| John Farrell Metten collection, 1969
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| Creator: |
Metten, William F., Jr. |
| Repository: |
Hagley Museum and Library: Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department |
| Accession Number: |
1969.029 |
| Extent: |
58 items |
| Abstract: |
John Farrell Metten (1873-1968) was a marine engineer and shipbuilding industry executive. This collection contains photographic
prints, postcards, documents, drawings, and an identification card pertaining to the career of John Farrell Metten and views
of Naval ships built at the New York Shipbuilding Company, Camden, N.J.
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| Sawmill/gristmill at Monocacy Creek, Pennsylvania photographs, 1969
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| Creator: |
Howard, Robert, (staff) |
| Repository: |
Hagley Museum and Library: Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department |
| Accession Number: |
1969.034 |
| Extent: |
4 items |
| Abstract: |
The Gristmill of Monocacy Creek was founded in 1807 and is located along the Monocacy Creek in Southeastern Pennsylvania.
This collection contains 4 photographic prints of equipment from the mill, specifically an up and down sawmill.
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